Welcome to this week's video...see which camera will win in the ultimate showdown between a film SLR and a film point and shoot (Canon A1 versus Olympus XA2).
Overall the SLR was obviously higher quality but I’d say the area where I saw the biggest difference was in the sky and corners. There is a lot of vignetting with the XA2 and it doesn’t do great with a big empty sky. There’s also a lot of grain in these areas because of the vignetting but this is more for landscape shots, other street shots turned out much better and there’s less vignetting.
Shooting film really slows down the photography process because you have to take the time to really compose an image and you have a finite number of photos. The XA2 is the first film camera I ever shot with and immediately noticed how it slowed down the process. With metering and focusing the A1 slows it down even more.
The XA2 is obviously a point and shoot so you don’t have to worry about metering or exposure really, you can adjust the ISO to over or underexpose and change the focusing distance. There are three options and I’ve gotten really quick with adjusting the focus using the furthest option, this little mountain 95% of the time so it’s super easy to compose and snap the shot. It’s also great for street photography because its so small and inconspicuous.
The A1 on the other hand definitely makes things slower. You can shoot in shutter or aperture priority mode and I usually end up shooting in shutter priority and just adjust the shutter to get to the desired aperture. That metering process definitely slows things down and then the longest part is the focusing. The manual focus lens makes this harder to use for street photography especially when shooting a moving subject and it’s a bit more obvious than the XA2.
It was fun comparing these two film cameras and both definitely have their strengths and weaknesses but overall I’d rather shoot with the Canon A1 mostly because I want a higher quality image.
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8 дек 2020
